Regan De Loggans is the 2021–2022 Borderlands Curatorial Fellow, whose fellowship is part of the Vera List Center’s As for Protocols cycle of programs.

Their intention within the Borderland Curatorial Fellowship is to explore Indigenous futurism within contemporary art, and how science fiction lends alternatives to sustainable and fruitful futures for their people and the land. They believe that through the exploration of new realms, fantastical and unknown arts, and ancestral knowledge, a new future can be forged.

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Regan De Loggans moved to Lenapehoking in 2009 to attend Pratt Institute, where they majored in Art History and Critical/Visual Studies. They finished their Bachelors degree in Anthropology and Archeology at Hunter College by 2013, with a Minor in German Studies. After graduating, they worked on a number of archaeological field sites in New York, Iceland, and Belize, focusing their work on zooarchaeology. Regan continued their studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, completing a Masters degree in 2017 in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, and Museum Practice. Their work highlights the intersection between fashion studies, history, and the impact of art historical narratives on contemporary Indigenous art.

Regan has worked in a number of museums as a curator and educational researcher; Their work relates to decolonizing, Indigenizing, and queering institutions and curatorial practices. They have co-curated exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, New-York Historical Society, and are currently curating an exhibition on Indigenous queer identity at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Regan works as a cultural consultant to institutions, providing Indigenous and queer insights to both curatorial and educational departments. They lead workshops and lectures at universities and institutions throughout the country on teaching Native social history, Indigenizing curatorial practices, and organizing radical inclusionary anarchist spaces.

They are also a poet and performance artist; Their poetry and artistry intends to embrace their disdain for settler colonialism, while also celebrating community knowledge and language. They have read their work at the Abrons Art Center, Museum of the City of New York, Living Gallery, and RECESS Art, often in collaboration with the Indigenous Kinship Collective. IKC is a collective group lead by Indigenous femme, gender gradient, and womxn in Lenapehoking. They have staged direct actions at the American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the MTA Subways against continued police violence, and legacies of settler colonial violence.